Xu, Bing; Rixtel, Adrian van; Wang, Honglin - 2016
collateral is one of the defining characteristics of loan contracts. This paper investigates if relationship lending and market … concentration allow for informational rent extraction through collateral. We use equity IPO data as informational shocks that erode … rentseeking opportunities. Using a new loan-level database for China, we find that collateral incidence increases with …